Lucky Man love and one vast, albeit faux media empire's efforts to turn Lucky Man lemons into lemonade.

First off, we want to send out a big thank-you to our newest best friend and the author of The Love Book Ken Wohlrob for the quite awesome Lucky Man shout-out he gave us today at his blog. Many thanks, and drinks are on us for sure sir when next we meet, which you readers may want to note will be on September 28th when we get together to read at Freebird Books in Brooklyn. Please come out, won't you? And second, you may recall that Lucky Man's new, and now former, distributor AtlasBooks has taken the remaining copies of Lucky Man hostage and our kick-ass publisher Manx Media has been forced to reprint them. What we didn't know is that this would require a new ISBN number. Why is that important you ask, well, there are some who have been let's say less than happy with the Lucky Man proofreading, but we couldn't technically make any changes under the current ISBN number. Now that we have to get a new number however, we also have the chance to give it a thorough edit, which we are doing even as we speak. Pretty cool, right? Way.

Free Lucky Man! Or not? The strange but true story of how the remaining copies of Lucky Man are being held captive and will likely not be freed.

While we at TBWCYL, Inc. are wont to embroider the occasional publishing related story as it suits our marketing needs, we believe the following story about the current fate of Lucky Man as we know it is in fact mostly true - Lucky Man's most awesome publisher Manx Media had an ongoing relationship with the distributor Biblio. Biblio was purchased by AtlasBooks Distribution. Atlas approached Manx Media about a new contract that Manx felt was inequitable. Manx balked at signing the contract and Atlas recalled all copies of Lucky Man leading all the Borders nationwide to return the copies of Lucky Man they had ordered. When Manx then suggested that Atlas just release the remaining books to Manx, Atlas said releasing the books would cost Manx $2000. Manx has decided not to pay the $2000, something Lucky Man author Ben Tanzer fully supports, but this means that we cannot obtain, or is it retain, the rest of our copies, books we already paid for, and so we will now be using Lulu for all future Lucky Man orders and distribution. We at TBWCYL, Inc. are in turn currently trying to decide how best to turn this into a marketing opportunity and what we're thinking is that everyone out there, and we mean everyone, should order at least one copy of Lucky Man, if not more, from Lulu in protest. You may not need another copy, but the way we see it, buying one will not only give you the chance to show Atlas how lame they are, it might even change your life. Now, how do we know this? We just do. For real.